Hurricane Colton (1950)

Hurricane Colton was the third named storm of the 1950 Hurricane Season.

History
The National Weather Service began to track a low pressure system east of Puerto Rico that was rapidly developing. This system became Invest 1950-4E (3E failed to develop into anything of significance). Hours after it took Invest status, 4E reached Tropical Storm status and was renamed Colton. As Colton moved northwest, forecast models projected Colton would make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in the New England states. Fear rose when the next set of predictions came out, as they predicted Colton, at this point now a Category 2, would maintain the original projected path but make landfall as a Category 3 major hurricane. However, later forecast models predicted it would sideswipe the colony states and never make true landfall. While Colton did exactly this, it produced storm surge that killed 6 people on land. Colton weakened as it moved north, and after it left tropical status, it impacted Maine as a rare summer nor'easter, with flooding adding 4 more deaths to the storm's death toll.